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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Is the Dam of Lies About to Burst?

By Alan
Caruba

Usually
there are signs a dam is about to burst. Tiny cracks show up, the structure
makes strange noises, and then, whoosh! That’s what we are witnessing as the
President, the former Secretary of State, and the Attorney General struggle to
keep the bulwark of lies and half-truths they have built intact. It is showing
signs of collapse.

Liberals
say absurd things all the time—mostly because they either don’t know the facts
or because they prefer to ignore or obfuscate them. The current example is the
shout-it-from-the-rooftops claim that Republicans are “politicizing” the events
in Benghazi that left a U.S. ambassador and three security personnel dead.

In the
wake of the House hearings on May 8th, the most elemental politics
is at work within the White House and that is the decision to abandon Hillary
Clinton. The decision to appoint her Secretary of State was political and,
since the President sets foreign policy, it kept her wing of the party in the
tent while affording the White House the opportunity to keep her conveniently
on the road and largely out of the spotlight.

Name a
single treaty or significant foreign policy achievement of Hillary Clinton’s
time as Secretary of State. Zero. Zip. Nada. Nienta.

Consider
the meltdown of influence the United States has had in the Middle East where
the single act of a Tunisian peddler who committed suicide as a response to the
harassment of the police set off a revolution that drove its dictator from
office and then spread rapidly to Libya where Gaddafi was killed and to Egypt
where its dictator (and ally of the U.S.) was driven from office with the
President’s blessing. And, for two years, the U.S. has stood on the sidelines
and watched as the Syrian dictator has slaughtered 70,000 Syrians, driving some
2.5 million to flee to Turkey and Jordan.

It has
taken eight months since the September 11, 2012 attack on the Benghazi
consulate and a House committee hearing to learn the truth as to why repeated
requests for increased security assets were denied in a nation that is still
essentially a war zone between the north and the south. We still do not know
who told available forces to stand down. The President and his regime call this
“politicizing.”

Beyond
Benghazi, every decision the President makes or chooses not to make has
political implications. The choice to go to bed the night of the attack and
then fly to a fundraiser the following day was political. As Commander-in-Chief
he had responsibility to issue the orders to protect his diplomats—our diplomats—but
he is also the Great Delegator and, as the noose tightens around Hillary, she
is very expendable.

It’s a
political decision to exploit the murders in a Connecticut elementary school to
attack the Second Amendment and gun ownership. The response of ordinary people
was to go out and buy a gun. Indeed, fear of the White House’s intentions has
made the President the greatest gun salesman in the nation.

Even in
the Obama Justice Department there is the odor of deception that still reeks
from the bungled gun-running program called “Fast and Furious” which allowed
guns purchased In the U.S. to be transferred to various Mexican drug cartels.
The result, in one case, was a dead U.S. Border Patrol officer, an ICE agent,
and an unknown number of Mexican cartel victims. It took a presidential executive order to throw a blanket of silence over the
role of the Justice Department in this lethal debacle. That’s political.

Now we
learn that the Justice Department obtained Associated Press phone records in a
probe to discover the source of a leaked story. AP officials called it a
“massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how a news organization gathers
news. The ever-reliable, politically-correct, liberally oriented AP has become
a crack in the dam.

The
revelation that the Internal Revenue Service “targeted” the Tea Party,
patriotic, and pro-Israel groups for special attention regarding their tax
status now adds to a growing sense of a regime without any internal limits on
its exercise of power.

The result
is a period in which the barely concealed scorn of the President, his wife, and
those around him in appointed and elected office has half the population
outraged while the other half is content to live parasitically, not paying
taxes, and receiving an amazing array of benefits which a bankrupt nation
cannot afford.

When
enough people—citizens, voters, taxpayers—think they are being lied to and
betrayed by those in high office, the dam of lies will begin to show signs of
bursting under the pressure of their pent up anger.

8 comments:

It's as close as it will ever get... If it doesn't, then the hold Obama and Company have on this nation, the people and the press truly is as bad, if not worse than that which was the domination of Communist Russia and China and NAZI Germany..

Let him sacrifice Hillary as that will be good for the country....one down, many to follow. He is now in this so deep that Hillary 's sacrifice will not save him if justice prevails.

It's not just the takers who are the problem, but there are way too many working people who still don't get it. I was talking to someone today who is in a very technical field and she still likes Obama. It has come to the point where I am not sure what it will take to awaken such a person. Unfortunately, there are millions like her.

I don't think they'll impeach Obama. He's safe, but his credibility will be hit. I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary Clinton is behind all these links so that he takes the blame for Benghazi and she smells like roses. It's all about 2016. One good thing though is that the GOP will probably win the Senate and retain the House in 2014.

I have been reading comments on CNN and Hufpo to gauge the Leftists thinking on this. Most support the president and feel this is all "trumped up" to make him look bad. They still believe the R's are hindering obama from "fixing" all our problems. Fred is correct that if the administration slithers through this we are no longer in deep doo doo we are fully buried by it. It will take a complete media jump ship from the dear leader and constant re-indoctrinating of the Leftist brain to ensure the truth fully comes out and people wake up.

At the end of the day, the Left will stand with their beloved Dear Leader, as they have nowhere else to go.

The upside is that only 10% of the population are hardcore Leftists - the rest are little more than a low I.Q. emotional mob who are useless parasites and play no role in events - and will abandon Dear Leader the day when the welfare checks end.

...and the checks will end before his term ends, because Dear Leader has almost killed the goose that lays the golden eggs - the U.S. economy.

I don't believe for a minute that President Obama or former Secretary Clinton will suffer politically from the Benghazi debacle. Surprise will be mine if they do. Read http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/

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I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.